You love movies. We love movies. We want more people to love the movies we love. So here's a list of the films we explicitly talk about on the show. We will add more titles as we add more episodes. And we will add certain movies we love, even if we do not mention them on the website. If you end up watching one of these films and you love it (or you hate it and hate us for recommending it), send us an email and let us know your thoughts.

Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)

The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)

Oldboy (Park Chan Wook)

Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Watchmen (Zack Snyder)

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

No one is as well-read as they ought to be (ourselves included, of course). We hope to change that. So, from time to time, we will update this recommendation page for compelling books, old and new. We hope to provide a wide range of information, ranging from history to Greek tragedy to science-fiction and all the other things, too. As always, if you read one of the books listed in the section below, and if it speaks to you in any way, positive or negative, feel free to reach out and let us know what you thought of the material. Like the film section, we will attempt to add everything we mention on the show, but we will also add books that we hold close to our hearts.

Drama Recommendations

King Lear, William Shakespeare

Medea, Euripides

Oedipus Tyrannus, Sophocles

Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe

Fiction Recommendations

Aesterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli

Maddaddam Trilogy

Oryx & Crake, Margaret Atwood

Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood

Maddaddam, Margaret Atwood

Maus I & II, Art Spiegelman

Monkey Bridge, Lan Cao

The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brian

T-Zero, Italo Calvino

Watchmen, Alan Moore

White Noise, Don DeLillo

The Zero, Jess Walter

Non-Fiction Recommendations

All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, Stephen Kinzer

Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz

The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan

The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age, James Kirchick

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, Richard Dawkins